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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the narrator want to do before being discouraged from doing so by Florence?
(a) Call the mayor's office.
(b) Bring Bheki to the police.
(c) Bring Bheki to a white doctor.
(d) File a complaint about the police.

2. What does Mr. Vercueil do after being beaten?
(a) He leaves.
(b) He sleeps.
(c) He goes to the hospital.
(d) He stops drinking.

3. Who does the narrator ask for help with her car problems?
(a) Her daughter.
(b) A mechanic.
(c) The neighbor.
(d) The homeless man.

4. Where does the narrator find Mr. Vercueil when she wakes?
(a) On the couch.
(b) On the guest bed.
(c) On the kitchen floor.
(d) On the front porch.

5. What does the narrator offer to do for Florence?
(a) Drive her to the hospital.
(b) Bring her back home.
(c) Pay for legal expenses.
(d) Buy her a car.

6. Why isn't Bheki in school?
(a) Because he thinks the school was created to make him fit in the apartheid system.
(b) Because he thinks he can have a college scholarship because of basketball.
(c) Because he is a genius that don't need to study.
(d) Because he wants to join the army.

7. When was the narrator's house burglarized?
(a) Five years before the events of the book.
(b) Twelve years before the events of the book.
(c) Three years before the events of the book.
(d) Four years before the events of the book.

8. Where is Bheki's friend kept?
(a) In a cell at the local prison.
(b) In the waiting room of the hospital.
(c) In a room full of older men.
(d) In the psychiatric wing of the hospital.

9. What does the narrator spend the day doing according to page 15?
(a) Spends the day cleaning the house.
(b) Spends the day gardening.
(c) Spends the day in bed reading.
(d) Spends the day writing.

10. What is the ethnicity of the narrator?
(a) Japanese.
(b) White.
(c) Black.
(d) Indian.

11. What does the narrator say to the person she finds?
(a) That she will call the police.
(b) That she will find him work.
(c) That he cannot stay.
(d) That she will house him for work.

12. What composer is the narrator particularly fond of?
(a) Beethoven.
(b) Bach.
(c) Debussy.
(d) Tchaikovsky.

13. What does the narrator ask her male employee to do over tea and biscuits?
(a) To cook for her.
(b) To mail papers to her daughter after she dies.
(c) To marry her.
(d) To be her driver.

14. What does Florence say the police do to black boys who are not in school?
(a) Arrest them.
(b) Attack them.
(c) Drink with them.
(d) Fine them.

15. What do Bheki and his friend crash into?
(a) A police car.
(b) A plumber's car.
(c) A wall.
(d) A bay window.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the narrator ask her housekeeper to do in the letter she writes?

2. What does Florence do after the crash?

3. What does the narrator give the man following his reaction to her comment regarding giving money for nothing?

4. What does the narrator think of doing with her cats after her death?

5. What does the narrator ask her housekeeper to do after speaking with the police?

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